The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 64
Outworn and spent At last, that direful tempest over-blown, Finola scaled their trysting-rock--alone.
Who acts: Outworn, Finola · What happens: spend, scale · To what, where: last, trysting rock
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Outworn, Finola), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outworn | Outworn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 1 Outworn | cc |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 direful | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 direful | nsubj |
| 8 | direful | direful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spent | parataxis |
| 9 | tempest | temp | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 over-blown | advmod |
| 10 | over-blown | over-blown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 direful | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 scaled | punct |
| 12 | Finola | Finola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 scaled | nsubj |
| 13 | scaled | scale | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 rock | nmod:poss |
| 15 | trysting | trysting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rock | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 trysting | punct |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scaled | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 alone | punct |
| 19 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 scaled | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | Outworn | last | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | scale | past | Finola | ’'s trysting rock | alone property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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